What is the moving around descriptor of PIP?

Moving around is a mobility activity. Add the points you score for this activity with the points you score for the other mobility activity to find out if you may be entitled to the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

How do I answer PIP questions?

Try to give clear, short explanations and examples that are relevant to the activity. You do not have to get treatment or support to meet the criteria for PIP. If you don’t get all the support you need, think about how your life could be improved if someone could encourage, help or prompt you with the activity.

How do you get mobility component of PIP?

If you get between 8 and 11 points in total, you’ll get the mobility component of PIP at the standard rate. If you get at least 12 points in total, you’ll get the mobility component at the enhanced rate.

How far can you walk to get PIP?

Under DLA, someone is eligible for the higher rate if they cannot walk more than 50 metres, but under the new rules for PIP – which is gradually replacing working-age DLA – this walking distance criteria has been set at just 20 metres.

What should be considered when applying a mobility descriptor?

Any difficulties that may arise during the journey, such as getting lost and asking for directions or encountering crowds, are not difficulties with following the route and cannot be considered when deciding if the descriptor is met.

What is the definition of mobility activity 1?

Mobility – Activity 1: Planning and following journeys. Activity 1 considers a claimant’s ability to follow the route of a familiar or unfamiliar journey as well as to plan and undertake a journey. As with all the other activities, a claimant is to be assessed as satisfying a descriptor only if they can do so reliably.

Can a claimant satisfy the SOS mobility descriptor?

The Secretary of State (SoS) argued that as there was no evidence that the claimant had a cognitive impairment that would render her unable to navigate a route, she could not satisfy descriptors 1 (d) or 1 (f) as they were confined to an ability to navigate a route.

What does the DWP mean by a mobility descriptor?

DWP’s view is that the descriptor refers to the claimant’s inability to navigate a route due to a cognitive or intellectual impairment so that a person who, for example, because of anxiety or mental distress, needs to be accompanied by another person will not score points under the descriptors.